Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

COLORADO'S MINING RESOURcCErS.
give about two hundred dollars a ton by stamping,
and then amalgamating with quicksilver, at a cost
of from sixty to seventy dollars per ton. The other,
smelting works, in which to treat the higher grades
of ore, at a cost of something over a hundred dollars
a ton. This establishment buys most of the ore it
reduces from the miners; either process save from
seventy to ninety per cent. of the assay value of the
ore. These processes, however, are so imperfect that
some of the best ore is now sent east for treatment.
The Equator mine is one of the prize mines here,
and sends its highest grade ores all the way to
Newark, N. J., for reduction. The superior yield
obtained under the superior and economical managemenrt more than pays the freight, which is forty dollars per ton.
Georgetown now has a population of about three
thousand, and the best hotel in the country. It is
one of the places that every tourist should visit;
partly for its Silver miles, partly because the road
to it up South Clear Creek is through one of the
most interesting sections of the mountains, and partly
that it is the starting point for the ascension of
Gray's Peaks. The traveler can go up to the top
of that mountain and back to Georgetown between
breakfast and supper; and if he will not take lhis
tour by the Stiake and BlIIue( Rivers to the ibid,!le of
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